Image upload problem–can’t create directory

  • I have a new blog. It’s hosted as a subdomain of my website. When I go to upload pictures, I get this message:

    Unable to create directory /home/mariele/public_html/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

    I’m not sure if this is a directory I need to create myself (and how would I do that) or if there’s something else I am missing.

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  • I also had to do something manually to get it working.
    Just FTP to your /wp-content folder, and check for a subfolder uploads. If it doesn’t exist, you can create it and set chmod to 777 for all files and folders inside it (if you happen to use WS_FTP to connect to your server, just right-click on the folder and select properties to do this)

    I have the exact same problem!

    I have tried everything!

    I created the directory directly in the file server. Then I went back into wordpress and tried to upload the pictures: I now get the same message except instead of saying can’t create directory – it say “can’t move the files to . . . . directory”

    What can I do?

    How do you set the chomod to 777? I use smartFTP – I right clicked on the file and changed the permissions to 777 – and apply it. But it doesn’t stay. If I open it again the permissions are set back to 0.

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